Age of Exploration

To sail or travel all the way around is __________

• radial navigation

• completely safe

• intergalactic-navigation

• circumnavigate

An instrument that points to the magnetic north.

• circumnavigate

• compass

• astrolabe

• quadrant

Italian explorer & navigator; the New World was named after him

• Amerigo Vespucci

• America Ferrera

• America Young

• America Sierra

"In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue." He was the Italian explorer, financed by Spain, who ventured into the Americas.

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Champlain

The journeys of Vasco de Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, and Christopher Columbus became possible in the late 1400s because of the:

• support of exploration by the English monarch.
• trade connections established by the Americans.
• effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
• advancements in sea travel.

What were the three reasons for European exploration?

• Game, God, Glory
• Glory, Fame, and God
• God, Glory, and Gold
• Gifts, Greatness, Glory

What is considered the "New World?"

• Europe
• Asia
• The Americas
• Africa

What was the purpose of European exploration?

• To find a sea route to Asia.
• To expand the Silk Road.
• To take back the Holy Land.
• To find a land route to Africa.

Who was the first captain whose crew circumnavigated the globe?

• Vasco da Gama
• Ponce de Leon
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan

Europeans began exploring the world because they wanted to:

• gain riches from Asia like silk and spices
• prove that the world was flat
• discover a New World
• All of these are true